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PESHAWAR: Eight Levies men deployed at a checkpost in Frontier Region Peshawar had only three rifles to counter any militant attack in the troubled semi-tribal region, a source told The News.
The source said the soldiers had to vacate the Ghakhay Sar checkpost in Janakhor area on December 26 when it was stormed by the militants armed with automatic rifles and heavy weapons. The source said eight of the soldiers in the post had only three rifles and they had no other option but to save their lives.
Militants also attacked other checkposts as well as the poorly guarded residential barracks of the Levies men located in a telephone exchange and in the newly constructed technical college.
They killed two of them, wounded another one and abducted the remaining 23 personnel. Twenty-one of the kidnapped men were later killed on December 29.
The families of the kidnapped officials are critical of the federal and provincial governments and Peshawar district administration for failing to recover the kidnapped men. The slain soldiers were getting meagre salaries and were not entitled to get the “Shaheed Package” given to slain policemen and soldiers of the Pakistan Army.
Many were the only breadwinners for the families. Most of them security men belonged to Hassankhel, Janakhor and nearby towns of the semi-tribal Frontier Regon Peshawar, which is surrounded by Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Agency and Matani town in Peshawar.
Militants had shot dead the 21 Levies men in the Hassankhel area of Frontier Region Peshawar late Saturday night after they were blindfolded and lined up with their hands tied at their backs. Their bodies were dumped in the Jabba Hassankhel area of the same tribal region.
The source said the soldiers had to vacate the Ghakhay Sar checkpost in Janakhor area on December 26 when it was stormed by the militants armed with automatic rifles and heavy weapons. The source said eight of the soldiers in the post had only three rifles and they had no other option but to save their lives.
Militants also attacked other checkposts as well as the poorly guarded residential barracks of the Levies men located in a telephone exchange and in the newly constructed technical college.
They killed two of them, wounded another one and abducted the remaining 23 personnel. Twenty-one of the kidnapped men were later killed on December 29.
The families of the kidnapped officials are critical of the federal and provincial governments and Peshawar district administration for failing to recover the kidnapped men. The slain soldiers were getting meagre salaries and were not entitled to get the “Shaheed Package” given to slain policemen and soldiers of the Pakistan Army.
Many were the only breadwinners for the families. Most of them security men belonged to Hassankhel, Janakhor and nearby towns of the semi-tribal Frontier Regon Peshawar, which is surrounded by Darra Adamkhel, Khyber Agency and Matani town in Peshawar.
Militants had shot dead the 21 Levies men in the Hassankhel area of Frontier Region Peshawar late Saturday night after they were blindfolded and lined up with their hands tied at their backs. Their bodies were dumped in the Jabba Hassankhel area of the same tribal region.
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